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Quercetin-grafted modification to improve wood decay resistance

  • Li Yan ORCID logo , Xiaodi Ji , Feiyang Zeng , Zhangjing Chen and Yafang Lei ORCID logo EMAIL logo
From the journal Holzforschung

Abstract

As a renewable biomass material, wood is often deteriorated by decay fungi. Quercetin was here grafted onto poplar (Populus nigra) using oxalic acid as a linker through vacuum-pressure treatment and esterification with various molar ratios of quercetin to oxalic acid (Q/O) to enhance the wood decay resistance. Decay resistance, flexural strength, graft mechanism, and microscopic structure of the quercetin-grafted wood were analyzed. Results indicated that the decay resistance of quercetin-grafted wood to white-rot fungi (Trametes versicolor) and brown-rot fungi (Gloephyllum trabeum) was significantly improved. The modulus of rupture (MOR) of the quercetin-grafted wood was reduced while the modulus of elasticity (MOE) was improved. Quercetin was grafted onto wood through formation of ester groups among oxalic acid, wood, and quercetin. The highest amount of ester groups in the grafted wood was achieved when Q/O was 1:2 and Q/O lower than 1:2 would severely degrade the wood. The thickness of cell walls of the quercetin-grafted wood increased and reached a maximum of 2.2 μm with Q/O of 1:2. Quercetin can be grafted on wood cell wall by oxalic acid as an environment-friendly preservative to enhance the decay resistance of wood.


Corresponding author: Yafang Lei, Department of Wood Science, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China, E-mail:
Li Yan and Xiaodi Ji equally contributed to this article.

Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: 31971590

Funding source: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2452019057

Acknowledgements

We thank Mr Zhang Guoyun (State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China) for scanning electronic microscope (SEM) observation.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: The authors are very grateful for financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31971590) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2452019057).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Received: 2022-06-28
Accepted: 2022-09-30
Published Online: 2022-10-18
Published in Print: 2022-12-16

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